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Although the work of Sofia Rusova as an early childhood educator and activist for Ukrainian and women's rights is becoming more well-known, she is still not a household name even among Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans.

Sofia Lindfors was born in the small village of Oleshnia in Chernihiv gubernia to a Swedish father and French mother. Sofia’s mother died of tuberculosis, and the remaining family moved to Kyiv when Sofia was ten years old. Five years later, her father died.

Objects in museums can speak to people in surprising ways. Dr. Luba Kowalsky was so captivated by an embroidery in a Ukrainian museum that she had to recreate it, and her re-creation is now in the Center's collections so that others can continue to be inspired by it.

When we think of Ukrainian immigrants to the US before World War I, it's the coal mines in Pennsylvania and the big cities of the East and Midwest that spring first to mind. But there was more to it than that.

Archival documents can provide literal voices from the past in the form of letters and other documents. This telegram tells a scary tale about religious persecution in the early days of Stalin's regime.

There are many things that pass through our hands every day that are intended to be thrown away. Individually, these items have relatively little value, but if one assembles a comprehensive collection, then they can suddenly take on significant importance as documentation of a given time, place, or community.